Mega-D is one of the well known botnets shut down after the fall of McColo has risen from the dead. Known for spamvertising with adverts about penis-pills, Mega-D was linked to a network of infected bot computers communicating with a new, remote command and control channel. more..

Cybercriminals have had an entire year to learn more tricks and ways to obtain their goals online and this creates extreme risk factors for the general online public this festive season. The good news is there are certain measures which can be taken, in order to help you remain safer online and to minimize the risks involved. more..

This time cyber criminals have shifted to the natural disasters of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil. Security experts have discovered a new spam campaign that spreads emails looking like a news alert about the current disaster in Santa Catarina. more..

The latest worm/trojan identified that can efficiently manipulate the windows vulnerability goes by the name of Win32/Conficker. Of late this particular worm/trojan has been responsible for the creation of a fast growing botnet. more..

Panda Security, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, alerted email recipients that it has detected a series of spam messages containing and spreading the Trojan named Agent.JEN. These emails seems to be coming from UPS, the largest shipping carrier in the world. more..

Mal Otorun1 is a malicious Trojan that was recently discussed in our article about how “USB Flash Drives are a perfect place for computer viruses to hide”. The unique behavior of the Mal Otorun1 is that it infects data storage devices and then replicates a virus onto any connected flash drives including USB thumb drives. As you can imagine, this parasite can easily be spread if the infected USB drive is used on another computer. more..

Security vendor Marshal warns against the growth of the world's second largest botnet called Rustock. more..

New spam attack attempts to threaten recipients by claiming that their Internet is going to get suspended due to illegal activities. more..